MARILYN MONROE RARE 1950s PHOTOGRAPHIC BUTTON C. 1953.
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Item Description
2.5" thick litho tin button with gray tin covered back and pair of holes containing the original safety pin style fastener. The button is totally unmarked except for the bold "Marilyn" printed over the photo of her posing in her sunshine yellow swim suit. The button was likely produced in Australia. It has only a very few tiny paint rub marks on the red background, exceedingly minor for a litho and much less than on the one other example we offered in Auction #213. Button retains full gloss and the color has not faded. At the lower left corner of the button a corner of a wire table shows. Image is from a photo shoot in 1953 by Frank Powolny. We've seen the image on a postcard from the 1950s printed in Germany, it was also used by 20th Century Fox as a publicity still and a photo from the same session appears on the front of a November, 1953 issue of Motion Picture & TV Magazine. For a personality of Marilyn's magnitude, it is amazing that there are not numerous buttons picturing her from the 1950s and 1960s, but, in fact, this is the only vintage Marilyn Monroe button design known to us. Rare and Exc.
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